Reader Question: What does WYSIWYG mean?

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WYSIWYG is an acronym, pronounced WIZ-ee-wig, that stands for What You See Is What You Get. In our Web world, it refers to website text editors that display the same thing while you're editing that appears when the document is published. So, when want a word to be bolded when published, it will look bold while you edit it.
Microsoft Word is a WYSIWYG editor. Notepad is not.